Seder Hagadah shel Pesach. With commentary by Abrabanel

(HAGADAH)

Aaron ben Uri Lipman Fraenkel

Sulzbach

1711

Baroque frontispiece. Title within architectural arch. 14 copper-plate engravings. Historiated letters on pp. 3r, 13v. Hebrew and Yiddish translations of Echad Mi Yode’ah and Chad Gadya. Previous owners signature: Simcha Mosbach, with lengthy notations of family events, dated 1705-1788

Yudlov 115; Yaari 72

“The success of the Amsterdam Hagadah of 1695 was such that within a relatively short time its illustrations were copied in other places...First among the Amsterdam imitations was an edition published in Frankfurt a/Main in 1710. In quality and fineness of reproduction, however it was surpassed by the Hagadah that appeared in Sulzbach a year later. But while the printer consciously followed his Amsterdam model throughout, he also reserved something for himself. A new frontispiece and a new title page now replace the corresponding leaves in the former. The frontispiece is among the most imposing to be found in eighteenth-century Hebrew books and has a magnificent sculptured quality.” Yerushalmi, pl. 64-5